11 August 2020, 07:32, Oilseeds

Rapeseed production in Ukraine crossed 2 mln t, key production regions

As of August 6, agricultural producers in Ukraine harvested 2.18 mln t of rapeseed on 1.29 mln ha or 91% of the planned areas.

The oilseed crop yields 2.13 t/ha on average since the start of the campaign. Harvesting of rapeseed has been completed by 11 regions, the Harvest Online 2020 project data show.

The TOP 10 regions by the volume of rapeseed new harvest production:

Region  Harvest, thou. t Area, thou. ha Yield, t/ha
Dnipropetrovsk 316.23 126 2.51
Khmelnytsky 198.28 68.38 2.9
Kherson 175.08 89.97 1.95
Zaporizhzhya 172.52 106.5 1.62
Mykolaiv 135.94 78.29 1.74
Lviv 129.7 54.04 2.4
Kirovohrad 125.52 45.4 2.77
Ternopil 113.23 40.73 2.78
Zhytomyr 97.68 49.08 1.99
Rivne 95.26 36.08 2.58

Follow the updates with the Harvest Online 2020 project. The project is developed in partnership with Soufflet Agro Ukraine.

As of August 6, agricultural producers in Ukraine harvested 32.96 mln t of grain and leguminous crops on 8.48 mln ha or 56% of the planned areas.

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